Thursday, September 1, 2005
Presidential Timber
Posted by Bruce Barry on Thu, Sep 1, 2005 at 9:21 AM
NY Times op-ed columnist Bob Herbert writes today about TennCare, calling Gov. Bredesen's reform approach "profoundly cruel":
You just can't buy good press like that.
The word in Tennessee is that Gov. Phil Bredesen, a Democrat, has presidential aspirations. I find that interesting. Perhaps he can run on the success he's had throwing sick people off of Medicaid. Thanks to Mr. Bredesen's leadership, Tennessee is dumping nearly 200,000 residents, some of them desperately ill, from TennCare, the state's Medicaid program....[R]ather than do the heavy lifting necessary to shore up an important and admirable program, Governor Bredesen resorted to the draconian, life-threatening expedient of severing the health coverage of people who have nowhere else to turn. Perhaps that's what one should expect from a former managed care executive. Governor Bredesen's Web site notes that before entering public service, he "was a successful health care entrepreneur."
You just can't buy good press like that.
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